Lot 260 Brass Worksplate - This rare WD Worksplate was carried by an ex North Staffordshire Railway 0-6-2T No 158 (LMS 2253) built at Stoke Locomotive Works in 1923 and sold by the LMS to the WD in 1936 becoming Longmoor Military Railway No 20. The plate details the locomotive's history in full and in that respect is highly unusual if not unique. The Worksplate was fitted to the loco's bunker at the Longmoor Military Railway when the locomotive was named "MARLBOROUGH". The locomotive was allocated the WD number 70207. At a later point the plate was moved to below the nameplate on the side of the tank where it remained until the loco was withdrawn in 1947 and subsequently scrapped.

 

  Lot sold for £1000